Cornelie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Forme féminine liée à Corneille; nom d’origine romaine associé à la corneille
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɔʁnəʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cornelie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 446K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 10K
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 26K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Forme féminine liée à Corneille; nom d’origine romaine associé à la corneille.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cornelie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 41K | listed | Cornelie | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,711 | 1 in 10K | 1.7K | Cornelie | 32 |
| DE Germany | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Cornelie | 48 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Cornelie | 2 |
| FR France | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 446K | 270 | Cornelie | 114 |
| GP Guadeloupe | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 5 | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cornelie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Origine latine; signifie « corneille ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cornelie Richterb. 1842DEGerman salonnière (1842–1922)
- Cornelie Lechlerb. 1857DEGerman author
- Cornélie van Oosterzeeb. 1863NLDutch pianist and composer (1863-1943)
- Cornelie Jeanne van Reede Tot Ter Aa Heemskerck van Beestb. 1867NLeditor
- Cornelie Benndorf-Muchb. 1880ATAustrian teacher
- Corry Slagerb. 1883NLnot in their usual nameDutch painter (1883 - 1927)
- Cornelie Sonntag-Wolgastb. 1942DEGerman politician
- Katinka Lampeb. 1963NLnot in their usual nameDutch painter (born 1963)
- Cornelie Smorenburgb. 1979NLDutch cyclist
- Cornelie von GierkeDEGerman jurist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 96 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 75 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 62 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 50 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 10 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Cornelie?
- A machine transcription gives /kɔʁnəʎi/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Cornelie a male or female name?
- Cornelie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Cornelie mean?
- Recorded meaning: Forme féminine liée à Corneille; nom d’origine romaine associé à la corneille.
- In which country does Cornelie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Cornelie in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cornelie.
- Where is Cornelie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cornelie is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though Congo - Kinshasa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cornelie?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,711 people named Cornelie, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cornelie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cornelieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cornelie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.